Sand Lick Men Found Guilty on Six Counts
Kenneth Harper and Barney Phipps, both of Sand Lick, were found guilty on six counts of manufacturing moonshine by a Beckley federal jury after two minutes of deliberation. Sentencing set for Jan 16. probe of backgrounds ordered. The case closed the Beckley term of Federal Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern District Federal Court
Beckley
Kenneth Harper
Barney Phipps
Sand Lick
Ben Moore
Harper
Moore
Phipps
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division
U.S. Treasury Department
Country Life Leaders Set Opening Session at Conrab High
Conrab Beckley Junto High School will host the opening session of the Country Life Commission annual leaders conference on November 2 at 4 30 pm. Delegates from Fayette Nicholas Summers and Raleigh counties join panels on progress education recreation and community development with a dinner at six and an after dinner farm income discussion.
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Beckley Junto High School
Country Life Commission
Fayette
Nicholas
Summers
Raleigh
Nicholas County
Raleigh County
Summers County
Boy Scout Rally Slated on Oct 15 Raleigh County Beckley
Oct 15 set for a rally at 7 30 p m in the Beckley Recreation Building featuring Boy Scouts Cub Scouts and Explorer Scouts. Albert Allen to MC with scout leaders assisting. Activities include first aid knot games and a transport demo for injured person field signals and ice land rescue. Awards to be given before closing at 9 p m.
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Raleigh County
Boy Scouts
Cub Scouts
Beckley Recreation
Albert Allen
Thhe Valley
Allen
Ten men called by 5S board for induction at Beckley station
Ten men listed by Miss Alma Smith, board clerk, are to report for induction Thursday at Beckley Main Recruiting Station. Inductees include Chesley Zutaut of Pontiac and Mahbscott ancestry, Don Lilly of Beckley, Jimmy Cook of Orlando, Robert Dawson of Beckley, Chester Matherly of Shady Spring, Willie Chandler of Beckley, Arnold Hatcher of Beckley, Harless Daniel of Harper, Jack Clark of Atlanta, and Jackie Bledsoe of Cranberry, per local notices.
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Selective Service Board
Beckley
SA Board Sets Tuesday Meeting
The Salvation Army advisory board will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9 at the Army Citadel on S Fayette St. Capt. Robert H. Boyce announced. Agenda includes year end financial drive reports, 1956 Christmas plans, corps activities, nominating committee appointment, and a new member committee selection.
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The
Salvation Army
Army Citadel
S. Fayette St
Robert H. Boyce
Delinquent Parking Fines Owe Beckley 90.50
Beckley Police report at least 16 persons owe parking fines totaling about 90.50. Capt. Tyree noted 374 dollars in delinquent fines collected recently. Twelve violators paid 5 dollars each for court costs after paying fines, with warrants planned for nonpayment within a week. Names of 12 payees listed.
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Beckley
M. E. Tyree
Tyree
Injunction Sought in Raleigh County Circuit Case
Amended bill of complaint filed seeks an injunction against three defendants in Raleigh County Circuit Court. Clerk’s Office Thursday was Crewe Maples. The suit names Joe Bragg Ermine Plunvey and Wesley Bennett. Bragg is charged with entering land owned by Ma ales cutting timber and hauling it to a sawmill owned by Plumer and Bennett. No action on the injunction request has yet been taken.
School employees in Raleigh County receive September pay
Approximately 1 200 employees of the Raleigh County Board of Education including bus drivers janitors superintendents and clerical staff today received their first salary check of the new school year covering September. The total net disbursement amounted to about 270 000 dollars.
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Raleigh County Board of Education
Clear Fork Residents Rally for Sanitation Cleanup
Citizens of Clear Fork convened to address a severe sanitation problem arising from creek deposits and outdoor toilets. Local leaders, including W. D. Hume the county sanitarian, Sheriff deputies, and school and PTA representatives, organized plans to secure a landfill site and loaned heavy equipment. A year of effort by Band Mothers Club and Presbyterian Church aims to fund or borrow machinery for cleanup despite no district funds.
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Clear Fork
Hume
Raleigh Eens
Antits
W. D. Hume
Joe Asbury
Jack Wells
Presbyterian Church
Woodroy Toney
Ares
Cars Collide At Intersection In Piney View
State Police estimate the $300 damage from a two car crash at the US 19 and US 61 intersection in Piney View. Drivers Robert Allen Hughes, a Navy Station resident in Florida, and Paul Warhop were involved when Hughes panicked seeing oncoming traffic on a wet road. no injuries or arrests recorded.
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U. S
Piney View
Batoff ‘Mountain
Robert Allen Hugh
Navy
Florida
Paul Wauhop
Prince
Hughes
Warhop
Two Jailed on Charges of Theft Moonshine
Two men Harless Adkins of Layton and Arnold Keaton of unknown address were jailed in Raleigh County after police stopped their vehicle around 5 p m Thursday. Adkins faces grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing copper wire from a Fayette County mine and was moved from Fayette County Jail for investigation. Keaton, arrested on Mabscott Hill, is charged with transporting moonshine and carrying a small whisky quantity in his car. he was slated for a hearing today.
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Raleigh County
Harless Adkins
Lawton
Arnold Keaton
Adkins
Fayette County
Keaton
Mabscott Hill
Lilly Appeals Case To Criminal Court
A Cool Ridge resident named Percy Ray Lilly was found guilty in Beckley Police Court on a running red light charge and appealed to Raleigh County Criminal Court after Judge C Bersley raised the fine from 3 to 10 dollars. Three others forfeited bonds totaling 129 dollars at the same session. Lincoln Demyan of Beckley forfeited a 105 dollar bond on a tax paid whisky charge, and two others, charged with intoxication, forfeited 17 dollar bonds each.
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Cool Ridge
Beckley
Raveigh County
Percy Ray Lilly
Tuesay
C. Bersley Lilly
Lily
Lilly
Lincoln Demyan
McKinney Rites Slated Sunday in Coal City Church
Funeral services for Mrs. Sue Annie McKinney 69 of Coal City are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Coal City Community Church after a year long illness. She was born December 1 1896 in Basin Wyoming Charity and was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Surviving are her husband Jesse four brothers four sisters two half siblings two sons and two daughters with 22 grandchildren. Burial will be in the family cemetery at Coal City. The body will lie in state at the Williams Funeral Home Sophia from 11 a.m. Saturday. Pallbearers are Steve Carpenter Bill Richmond Walden Dodd Robert Rice Clarence Woods and John Buchanan. SOPHIAN S BROTHER DIES Sutphin 68 of Quinwood dies in Richmond Virginia hospital with funeral at Quinwood Baptist Church set for 2 p.m. Saturday. He was the brother of Mrs Nora Roberts Sophia.
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Coal City
Sue Annie McKinney
Basin
Wyoming
Chaiity
Ate Ballard
Beckie Shrewsbury
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Jesse
Lawrence Shrewsbury
Green , Sulphur Springs
Emmett Shrewsbury
Amigo
Carl Shrewsbury
Lego
Elbert Shrewsbury
Willie Hyton
Kempton
Pearl Basham
Odd
Ida Reed
Egeria
Eva McKinney
Beeson
Braiy
Fireco
Fred
Junior
Hubert
U. S. Anny
San Francisco
Calif
Lucy [Dancey
Lillybrook
Gladys Bolen
Princewick
Williams
So ‘Phia
Sophian
Robert L
Sutphin
Quinwood
Richmond, Va
Quinwood Baptist Church
Sutphia
Nora Roberts
Sophia
Dozier Services This Afternoon for Ceci Olzie Dozier
Funeral services for Ceci Olzie Dozier 32 Detroit former Beklevan were held at 2 pm today at Sprague Church of God by Rev Earl King Princeton. Burial in Stamford Cemetery. Dozier died after an extended illness Tuesday at Florence Alabama where he worked as a construction supervisor with Pressure Concrete Co. Survivors include his mother Adelia Dozier Beckley wife Doris Dozier Boston sisters Pauline Minks Beckley and Louise Green Baltimore brothers William Roanoke Clem Daytona Beach Matthew Michigan Louis Cincinnati pallbearers Robert Lloyd Dozier Ivan Stuckey Fred Minks Wayne Pettry Douglas Fields
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Ceci
Olzie! Dozier
Detroit
Mich
Sprague
Church of God
Earl King
Princeton Buria
Stamford
Divier
Pressure Concrete Co
Florence
Ala
Adelia Dozier
Beckley
Doris Dozier
Boston
Mass
Pauline Minks
Louise Green
Baltimore
William
Roanoke
Clem
Daytona Beach
Fla. Matthew
Michigan
Louis
Cincinnati
Vandalism Reported at Beckley Junior High School
City Police investigate vandalism at Beckley Junior High School. E R Hartson and Virgil Sarret report sixteen windows broken over the past weekend on the east side of the new building and the west side of the old building.
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Beckley Junior High
E. R. Hartson
Raleigh County
Virgil Sarret
Area bands to perform at WVU Richmond game halftime
More than 1 200 high school musicians from twenty one bands will perform at halftime during the West Virginia University versus Richmond game. Participating groups include Apsted West Fairmont and Hurricane as the annual high school band day program returns.
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West Virginia University - Richmond
Apsted
West Fairmont
Home blamed for youth problems and family breakdown
Juvenile counselor Grover Barnette told Beckley Presbyterian Men that home life drives youth issues, noting 17 million youths enter courts yearly and 65 percent lack religious faith. He cited 1.35 million parents deserted their children and urged a return to family love, understanding, and discipline amid 250,000 boys sent to institutions last year.
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Grover Barnette
Kanawha County
Beckley Presbyterian Men of the Church Club
United States
Charleston
Burnette
City permits total 23300 for remodels and a new business
City Recorder office issued permits totaling 23300 Tuesday for Katherine Johnson 124 Mills St remodeling 1000 fee 16 Kenny L Anderson 212 Church St remodeling 1300 fee 10 King Hiram Alift Lodge No 4 fo fisher Fayette and Meadows Sts construction of a business establishment 5000 fee 10 C D Austin Witherspoon St six room brick veneer house 16000 fee 37.50 All fees paid and listed with address and scope of work.
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Katherine Johnson
Mills St
Kenny L. Anderson
Church St
King Hiram Alift Lodge
Foomer S. Fayette and Meadows Sts
C. D. Austin
Witherspoon St
92nd West Virginia Baptist Session Prepares Beckley
The 92nd annual West Virginia Baptist Convention meets in Beckley with 750 churches represented. Beckley’s Earl Bibb Sr. presides, joined by officers Vail Winter and C Keys. Banquet speaker Robert Byrd and program details draw attention to campus Hell Week at Beckley College.
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Beckley
West Virginia Baptist Convention
E.arle Bibb Sr
Vail C. Winter
Elizabeth
C. Keys
Clarksburg
Clarence Fig- Zalt
St. Albans
Elbert E. Gales Jr
Westsfield
N. Sue
Bap
Tist Ministers Council
The
American Baptist Convention
Robert C. Byrd
Sorphia
Congress
Barbara Ann
Norna Jean Locke
Greenebrier College
First
Parkersburg Baptist Church
William C. Smalley
Edmonton
Canada
Earl O. Snider
Beckieyans
Alvin J
Cook
Beckley College
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Holdren
Jim
Kemper Evans
Sand Branch
K. H
U.S
Percy Brown
William Ludy
Ludy
Darlene Elliott
Evan Kelly Proffitt
Fleet Carrier Inc
Irish Mountain
Country Life Leaders
Conrab
McKinney Rites
Meat Department
Valleydale
Chuck Roast
Grocery Department
LUX
Boe
L &B
Robert and
Lloyd Dozier
Ivan Stuckey
Fred |Minks
Wayne Pettry
Douglas
Fields
City Recorder's Office
State Baptist Conrad
Firestone Revolving Credit
Ashworth
Prince St
Raleigh Heights
Krazy Daze
Clark Stores
Neville St
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